Lamentations 4:15 Meaning and Explanation
“They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →People shun the defiled leaders as unclean, driving them away to wander homeless among the nations.
What Does Lamentations 4:15 Mean?
The defiled leaders are now driven off with the very cries once used against lepers: 'Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not.' Those who polluted themselves with blood are shunned and chased away, treated as contagious. The shouts pursue them as they flee, marking them as outcasts.
'When they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.' They become homeless wanderers, and even among the foreign nations the word goes out that they may not settle. There is no place left for them, no refuge anywhere. The verse shows the full isolation that guilt brings; those who corrupted the holy place find themselves with no place at all, cast out from their own land and unwelcome in any other.
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What does Lamentations 4:15 mean?
People shun the defiled leaders as unclean, driving them away to wander homeless among the nations.